This hunger for power was reinforced by four years of high school athletics, playing for a team that didn’t lose much. I had learned to equate winning with work ethic. If you put in the hard work, you should win. Winning, of course, was the goal. What was the point of playing if you weren’t focused on winning? As I started Bible college, I quickly discovered that I could apply the approach I learned from sports to academics and receive the very accolades and praise I was so desperate for.
